A happy OS X user here, but this one certainly rings a bell:
Evolution's contact editor allows you to annotate a contact with the dates
of their birthday and anniversary. However, these dates don't
automatically copy themselves into your calendar...you won't see them when you glance through your
schedule, and an alarm won't fire to warn you of a friend's upcoming birthday...Clearly, this is a travesty."
Indeed it is a travesty. And a travesty that exists between Apple's Address Book and iCal apps as well. You can get round it using software like Birthday Shifter, but this really ought to be in the main app's functionality.
Compaq are very important in computing history, since they were the company to clone the PC BIOS and start off the whole PC compatible movement. Had they failed or been legally kicked off the job, the computing landscape would look very different today. Better or worse is hard to say, but certainly different.
No need for the $15. Head off over to icalshare.com instead. It's an excellent resource for shared calendars, and I'm making use of a few from there (using Apple's iCal).
Alright, so that's a bit tongue in cheek but there is a point here - mainstream computing doesn't have to be ugly. I'm the owner of a Powerbook 12" and it's pretty sleek. On the PC side, I run a Shuttle small form factor, so that too looks pretty nice. Even the co-lo server I run looks nice, as it is a Raq4.
It is possible to get decent looking kit and leave the beige boxes behind, without having to go to the lengths presented on that site. It's just a question of whether it matters enough to you. For me, it does.
While we geeks think nothing of running miles of cable through the living room ("it adds character!"), all too often the special lady in our lives takes offence to this.
Or, in my case, when you have a 22 month-old running around the place...
Following Sun's decision to end of life all the Cobalt boxes, I'm converting my Raq4 over to Debian. The stability combined with security backports appeals to me.
Whilst reading all of the recent dropping of Red Hat Linux and purchasing of SuSE etc. I did wonder if this would lead to a boost for Debian. Take the Fedora project, for example. It seems madness to contribute to this over Debian, since with Fedora you really are just beta testing Red Hat Enterprise edition for them - the whole 'giving back to the community' thing is better handled by Debian since that is not meant for feeding back into commercial distributions.
So yes - I have to agree. Debian would seem to be the way to go following the absorbtion of the big names. Let Red Hat do its own work in getting rpms ready for RHE 16.8 or what have you - concentrate your efforts on improving things for the community at large instead.
A single session CD drive. Ebay will provide, though I'm not certain about extracting digital audio from such devices. I'm thinking about thinks like the original Apple CD-ROMs which required caddys.
I'm not sure what you mean by trying the "correct approach" here but if I'm judging a piece of software, I generally judge it by what it can do.
Which was my point, yes. The parent poster dismisses WMP's ignoring of Mac interface standards with the comment that it is "just a Windows knock-off" whilst simultaneously calling iTunes ignoring of Windows standards "great software". That's double standards, to me.
Now a number of people replying to my post have talked about functionality - that's not the point I was making, and I agree with them in their complaints. Those are well-grounded issues to do with file playback etc. - no need for cheap shots like the Windows knock-off crack.
Apple is doing it's best to convert Microsoft users by offering them incredible software. Microsoft is offering Mac users shitty knockoffs of Windows software.
Oh come on, even as a happy OS X user I have to say that this bit is slanted. iTunes for Windows doesn't follow any of the guidelines for Windows software - it is, to use (some of) your phraseology, a knockoff of Mac software. Not integrated into the Windows look and feel at all.
So Microsoft made similar decisions for their media player under OS X. Fine. You can argue the quality of the two apps reasonably and objectively, but saying that MS's non-integrating WMP for OS X is a Windows knockoff, but saying that Apple's non-integrating iTunes is "great software" is pure advertising nonsense.
View the software on its merits. It might still fail, but at least you'll have tried the correct approach.
My wife noticed this the other evening - told me she was trying to go to Hotmail and ending up on Amazon. I thought it sounded ridiculous, but sure enough that's what happened when I tried.
Had a laugh about it, then told her to use Hotmail.com. I forget if the site it was pointed to was amazon.com or.co.uk, but it was definitely at one of the Amazon sites.
My Neighbor is a lot older than I and saw the series when it originally aired... I had not been born yet.
I wasn't born when it came out either - I'm 31. First saw the series in 1992/3, and was struck by how sharp it all seemed and how relevant much of it still was. My opinion of its relevancy only increases as time goes on and more and more surveillence of the public comes into force.
The only people still arguing about the finale of "The Prisoner" are you and your one friend.
Pop along to alt.tv.prisoner and have a chat in there - should change your mind a bit. Still quite a lot of activity - books recently been published, films constantly rumoured and then sinking from sight, new musical references abound...I can't say I spend every waking moment thinking about it, but it is a series I have an interest in.
One warning: steer clear of the fan club, Six of One. Once a fine organisation that had some decent days out, it has descended into purest farce with current co-ordinators secretly taping other (now ex) co-ordinators in their own home. The irony of doing this to further the boost for leadership of a Prisoner appreciation society appears entirely lost on these fools. Personally, I left along with a large number of others. The series is interesting, but come on...letting that kind of rubbish spill into real life? Time to be somewhere else.
One thing that's interesting about the Matrix movies is that they've become a LOT of different things to a lot of different people....The problem though, is that a finale, by its nature, must be conclusive.
Not really. I'm a fan of the 1968 series The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan. Some see it as surreal oddness, some a spy story that degnerated, some as a template for defiance against authority and some...well, some just like the series.
It has one of the most legendarily weird endings of all time - the episode Fall Out. People have been arguing over that one for over thirty years, as its symbolism is both overt (there's nothing literal in there) and yet entirely opaque. I have no idea what it means, and McGoohan once asked that if someone ever says they know what it all is, could they please let him know?
So no, I don't believe finales have to explain everything. You're right about the movies meaning different things to different people though. To add a tinge of flamebait to the post, to me the films pose the question "how can people comment so seriously on such obviously rehashed ideas?", but your opinion may differ.
Have a look at MythTV under Linux. I have a Tivo for this job at the moment, but I can see a number advantaged to MythTV.
A friend of mine recently built a MythTV box and he's very happy with it. Now, if there was just some way of getting it to pick up a shared iTunes library...
I question slightly why he carries his digital camera into work everyday
I too carry a digital camera into work every day. Can also do video too, though not very well.
The reason? Because that camera is actually my mobile phone - it has a camera function on it. The article doesn't say what camera he used to shoot with, perhaps he shot with something along those line?
Flash is simply an animated gif enhancement for viewing more annoying banner ads.
My 21 month old daughter would disagree with you. For her, Flash is a way of watching Pingu the penguin jump across the ice flow, doing jigsaws online and learning letters from the Play with Clay Disney site. (Sorry no links - I'm at work and am not bringing those animations up now).
Flash can be used for more than ads. Personally I block Flash ads under Windows by using Firebird with the Flash Click to Run extension, and under OS X by using Safari with the Pith Helmet plug-in. Never see Flash ads, but I still use Flash content an awful lot.
Put it this way - you wouldn't call GIF a virus just because it can be used to show annoying ads, would you? No - it's just a viewing mechanism for an image and perhaps simple animation. Flash also is simply a viewing mechanism, purely in and of itself it is not a problem.
It's really hard to blame Mandrake for not testing for potential hardware damage in this day and age.
Absolutely, I entirely agree with you. However, people are reporting that merely the act of installing the OS on a machine with these drives causes the physical damage. Therefore, Mandrake never tested even a straight install of their OS on a machine built by the most prolific and mainstream box shifter of them all.
Dell makes a poor test case. They don't use particular brand and model number parts in their machines...
Now that's a much more persuasive argument. I'd be surprised if things varied all that much over a production run however. Revisions certainly, but manufacturer?
That's bad news for Mandrakesoft, LG provides OEM drives to Dell and many other bigtime manufacturers, But you can't really blame them....
I didn't attach blame to Mandrake, until I read your comment. Whilst it defies belief that LG are capable of building a drive that can be destroyed by software, it equally beggars belief that someone can try to release a commercial x86 operating system without testing on the major assembler - Dell.
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Yeah, and you can easily verbize things as well...
Cheers,
Ian
Evolution's contact editor allows you to annotate a contact with the dates of their birthday and anniversary. However, these dates don't automatically copy themselves into your calendar...you won't see them when you glance through your schedule, and an alarm won't fire to warn you of a friend's upcoming birthday...Clearly, this is a travesty."
Indeed it is a travesty. And a travesty that exists between Apple's Address Book and iCal apps as well. You can get round it using software like Birthday Shifter, but this really ought to be in the main app's functionality.
Cheers,
Ian
Compaq are very important in computing history, since they were the company to clone the PC BIOS and start off the whole PC compatible movement. Had they failed or been legally kicked off the job, the computing landscape would look very different today. Better or worse is hard to say, but certainly different.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Alright, so that's a bit tongue in cheek but there is a point here - mainstream computing doesn't have to be ugly. I'm the owner of a Powerbook 12" and it's pretty sleek. On the PC side, I run a Shuttle small form factor, so that too looks pretty nice. Even the co-lo server I run looks nice, as it is a Raq4.
It is possible to get decent looking kit and leave the beige boxes behind, without having to go to the lengths presented on that site. It's just a question of whether it matters enough to you. For me, it does.
Cheers,
Ian
I quote Howard of Howard's Homepage: "For it is said in the book of Tao that it is better to .org than .com"
Of course, I happen to agree...
Cheers,
Ian
Erm...how shall I put this? I've been 'in the computing industry' for fifteen years or so, and am fully aware of what the term 'based on' means.
Cheers,
Ian
Of course Linux* is based on Unix. It may not be derived from the sources of Unix, but the idea and the running of it most certainly is based on Unix.
*I'm prepared to accept arguments from the GNU/Linux crowd here.
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Ian
Or, in my case, when you have a 22 month-old running around the place...
Cheers,
Ian
Works no trouble under OS X (on a 12" Powerbook, at least). I often do my coding using a transparent terminal, vi and a DVD running underneath.
Cheers,
Ian
Whilst reading all of the recent dropping of Red Hat Linux and purchasing of SuSE etc. I did wonder if this would lead to a boost for Debian. Take the Fedora project, for example. It seems madness to contribute to this over Debian, since with Fedora you really are just beta testing Red Hat Enterprise edition for them - the whole 'giving back to the community' thing is better handled by Debian since that is not meant for feeding back into commercial distributions.
So yes - I have to agree. Debian would seem to be the way to go following the absorbtion of the big names. Let Red Hat do its own work in getting rpms ready for RHE 16.8 or what have you - concentrate your efforts on improving things for the community at large instead.
Cheers,
Ian
A single session CD drive. Ebay will provide, though I'm not certain about extracting digital audio from such devices. I'm thinking about thinks like the original Apple CD-ROMs which required caddys.
Has anyone ever tried this approach?
Cheers,
Ian
Which was my point, yes. The parent poster dismisses WMP's ignoring of Mac interface standards with the comment that it is "just a Windows knock-off" whilst simultaneously calling iTunes ignoring of Windows standards "great software". That's double standards, to me.
Now a number of people replying to my post have talked about functionality - that's not the point I was making, and I agree with them in their complaints. Those are well-grounded issues to do with file playback etc. - no need for cheap shots like the Windows knock-off crack.
Cheers,
Ian
Oh come on, even as a happy OS X user I have to say that this bit is slanted. iTunes for Windows doesn't follow any of the guidelines for Windows software - it is, to use (some of) your phraseology, a knockoff of Mac software. Not integrated into the Windows look and feel at all.
So Microsoft made similar decisions for their media player under OS X. Fine. You can argue the quality of the two apps reasonably and objectively, but saying that MS's non-integrating WMP for OS X is a Windows knockoff, but saying that Apple's non-integrating iTunes is "great software" is pure advertising nonsense.
View the software on its merits. It might still fail, but at least you'll have tried the correct approach.
Cheers,
Ian
Had a laugh about it, then told her to use Hotmail.com. I forget if the site it was pointed to was amazon.com or .co.uk, but it was definitely at one of the Amazon sites.
Cheers,
Ian
It is run by your one posting idea.
Cheers,
Ian
I wasn't born when it came out either - I'm 31. First saw the series in 1992/3, and was struck by how sharp it all seemed and how relevant much of it still was. My opinion of its relevancy only increases as time goes on and more and more surveillence of the public comes into force.
Cheers,
Ian
Pop along to alt.tv.prisoner and have a chat in there - should change your mind a bit. Still quite a lot of activity - books recently been published, films constantly rumoured and then sinking from sight, new musical references abound...I can't say I spend every waking moment thinking about it, but it is a series I have an interest in.
One warning: steer clear of the fan club, Six of One. Once a fine organisation that had some decent days out, it has descended into purest farce with current co-ordinators secretly taping other (now ex) co-ordinators in their own home. The irony of doing this to further the boost for leadership of a Prisoner appreciation society appears entirely lost on these fools. Personally, I left along with a large number of others. The series is interesting, but come on...letting that kind of rubbish spill into real life? Time to be somewhere else.
Cheers,
Ian
Not really. I'm a fan of the 1968 series The Prisoner, starring Patrick McGoohan. Some see it as surreal oddness, some a spy story that degnerated, some as a template for defiance against authority and some...well, some just like the series.
It has one of the most legendarily weird endings of all time - the episode Fall Out. People have been arguing over that one for over thirty years, as its symbolism is both overt (there's nothing literal in there) and yet entirely opaque. I have no idea what it means, and McGoohan once asked that if someone ever says they know what it all is, could they please let him know?
So no, I don't believe finales have to explain everything. You're right about the movies meaning different things to different people though. To add a tinge of flamebait to the post, to me the films pose the question "how can people comment so seriously on such obviously rehashed ideas?", but your opinion may differ.
Cheers,
Ian
A friend of mine recently built a MythTV box and he's very happy with it. Now, if there was just some way of getting it to pick up a shared iTunes library...
Cheers,
Ian
I too carry a digital camera into work every day. Can also do video too, though not very well.
The reason? Because that camera is actually my mobile phone - it has a camera function on it. The article doesn't say what camera he used to shoot with, perhaps he shot with something along those line?
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
My 21 month old daughter would disagree with you. For her, Flash is a way of watching Pingu the penguin jump across the ice flow, doing jigsaws online and learning letters from the Play with Clay Disney site. (Sorry no links - I'm at work and am not bringing those animations up now).
Flash can be used for more than ads. Personally I block Flash ads under Windows by using Firebird with the Flash Click to Run extension, and under OS X by using Safari with the Pith Helmet plug-in. Never see Flash ads, but I still use Flash content an awful lot.
Put it this way - you wouldn't call GIF a virus just because it can be used to show annoying ads, would you? No - it's just a viewing mechanism for an image and perhaps simple animation. Flash also is simply a viewing mechanism, purely in and of itself it is not a problem.
Cheers,
Ian
Absolutely, I entirely agree with you. However, people are reporting that merely the act of installing the OS on a machine with these drives causes the physical damage. Therefore, Mandrake never tested even a straight install of their OS on a machine built by the most prolific and mainstream box shifter of them all.
Dell makes a poor test case. They don't use particular brand and model number parts in their machines...
Now that's a much more persuasive argument. I'd be surprised if things varied all that much over a production run however. Revisions certainly, but manufacturer?
Cheers,
Ian
I didn't attach blame to Mandrake, until I read your comment. Whilst it defies belief that LG are capable of building a drive that can be destroyed by software, it equally beggars belief that someone can try to release a commercial x86 operating system without testing on the major assembler - Dell.
Cheers,
Ian